Originally posted by Ladiesman^:
But names like Hephaestus, Hermes, and Hades are proper nouns from Earth mythology...
There are a few other things that are clearly Terran influenced (like one of the wingmen wears "Cuban heels"...)
Even these could be “handy” translations. But I think the best example we could point to is Colonel Slade “Tex” Carver whose persona is clearly “too close for comfort”. But it remains hard to know, as a matter of canon anyway, exactly where such “artfulness” does or should give way to the “reality” being depicted. (Also complicating matters is P2's tongue-in-cheek flair.) I’d agree, though, that at some point the “writers” have to be held accountable for their “writing” whatever their real intent.
I still think the best explanation is at some point...whenever that may be....people from the Tri-System came into contact with people from the Confederation. The Tri-System admired the culture of Confed so much that they began to adopt it as their own (with a certain degree of variance, which you would probably find from system to system within the Confederation...) Or, the Confed attempt to control the people of the Tri-System at some point....
Well, it’s one explanation. But the arguable connections between the Confederation and Tri-System are few and far between. Certainly too few and far to conclude that the Tri-System must be enamored of the Confederation or that the Confederation once tried to “control” the Tri-System. (Don’t mean to rain on your parade; fanfic is always free to see or recast whatever it wants.
) To be sure, there are references to “Confederation” (and “confederation”), but some of these (and so perhaps all of these) are referring only to the Tri-System itself. The Tri-System appears to use a 12-month calendar, but IIRC some of its months are 33-37 days long. There’s also the Talon-like (or Gratha-like!) ship, which is treated in the game as if it were (and so could be) some kind of “alien-intruding” ship. And of course there are the familiar words and phrases, though how literally they should be taken is an open question. (The use of “human” is another good example, but it’s rendered ambiguous by the use of “humanoid”.)
The point is that were another bona fide (Origin-approved) P2 game developed, there would be nothing of any real substance to complain about (in terms of continuity at least) if that game depicted the Tri-System as having developed quite independently of, and with little or no contact with, the Confederation.
About it's location, i’ve also been thinking that possibly it's somewhat close to Earth...that allows them to have come into contact with them LONG ago.
Origin has stated that the Tri-System is located in “an isolated section” of the WC universe and “is not currently a part of the Confederation”. While any parsing is debatable, the word “isolated” must mean some sort of segregation, perhaps alluding to distance and/or other “difficulties” when it comes to contact. The word “currently” is more curious still since it’s superfluous in the basic statement. It therefore can imply at least the possibility for contact and at most the fact of contact, though the time frame–past, present, or future–is up for grabs.
